Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Will Iranian 'Sentinel' ever get off the ground?

Boris Pavlishchev

24.04.2012, 14:56

Iran is building a copy of the American RQ-170 Sentinel drone which was brought down on an Iranian airfield in December. Its engineers have cracked the code of the drone’s memory and hacked its software.

Iran is building a copy of the American RQ-170 Sentinel drone which was brought down on an Iranian airfield in December. Its engineers have cracked the code of the drone’s memory and hacked its software. Almost all of the data has been deciphered, one of Iran’s high-ranking military officials has declared on TV.The official also provided some details in what looked like an effort to dispel the CIA’s doubts about it. Before the raid on Bin Laden’s hideout, the drone monitored his house in Pakistan and prior to that it was in California for repairs. The software, technology and materials did not give away their secrets easily but we still did it, the official said.